OPAC - Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control

1. OPAC - Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

2. Research organization • Different (industrial) domains: • Capital Goods Operations • Physical Distribution and Logistics Management • Healthcare Operations • Process, Pharma and Food Industries • Accounting, Finance, and Game Theory • Linked to many research projects with e.g. Dinalog • Linked to many real-life decision problems within companies / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

3. Domains • Different mentors participate in more than one domain • Company involvement is based on our networks • Detailed information is available on: • Our OPAC website • http://w3.ieis.tue.nl/nl/groups/opac • http://w3.ieis.tue.nl/en/groups/opac • Personal webpages from (some) mentors / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

4. Capital Goods • Some topics: • Design for complete life cycle (incl. maintenance, final disposal) • Planning & control product development activities (multi-project planning with uncertainties in activities, duration activities) • Planning and control actual production capital goods (job shop like) • Planning and control after sales activities, incl. warranty, leasing, servicing, activities (parts, men, tools) • Location allocation decisions (parts, tools, service men) • People primarily involved: Geert-Jan van Houtum, Tarkan Tan, SimmeDouwe Flapper, HaoPeng (Reliability) • Other: Henny van Ooijen, Marco Slikker / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

5. Physical Distribution and Logistics Management • Some topics: • Network design for efficient transportation operations • Port and Hinterland logistics • Distribution Center and store location decisions • Planning and scheduling vehicles: Vehicle Routing Problems, Vehicle Fill rate improvements • In-store operations: e.g. handling, inventory, assortment planning, etc • People primarily involved: Tom Van Woensel, Jan Fransoo, Peter de Langen, Ton de Kok, DorotheeHonhon, Rob Broekmeulen, Karel van Donselaar • Other: Marco Slikker, NicoDellaert / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

6. Process, Pharma and Food Industries • Some Topics: • Planning and control of supply of input materials • Production planning and control (e.g., silos; technical batch sizes; sequence dependent setup times and costs; storage time restrictions; alternative recipees, routings; deteriorating, perishable stocks) • Location allocation decisions (network design) • Distribution planning and control • Investment decisions • Sustainable production and distribution • People primarily involved: Jan Fransoo, SimmeDouwe Flapper • Other: Tarkan Tan, Henny van Ooijen, Ton de Kok, ZűmbűlAtan / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

7. Accounting, Finance, and Game Theory • Some Topics: • Collaboration (between different parts of one company, different companies) • Contracting • Operations management and Finance (double degree Tilburg) • People primarily involved: Marco Slikker, Matthew Reindorp, FehmiTanrisever, ArunChockalingam / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

8. Healthcare operations • Some Topics: • Planning and control of supply to hospitals, incl. ambulances • Planning and control of patient flows (men, tools, materials; emergency, regular (repeat) visits) • Internal logistics (e.g., food delivery to patients in a hospital, daily help people in a nursery home) • Planning and control of helping people at home ("thuiszorg") • Planning and control of human resource availability, e.g., temporary workers, working in shifts (rosteringproblem) • Planning and control of materials, tools availability • People primarily involved: NicoDellaert Other: Henny van Ooijen / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

9. OPAC course requirements 1CM22 Integrated Financial & Operations Management 1CM25/1CM10 SCOP/MAMS obligatory for all OML Masters obligatory for OPAC Masters 1CM05 Design of Oper. Pl. Control Systems 1CM10/1CM25 MAMS/SCOP (the otherone!) 1CM15 Project andProcess Management 1CM30 Service Supply ChainsCapitalGoods 1CM36 Game Theorywithapplicationsto SCM 1CM40 Retail Operations 1CM55 Strategic and operational decision making in transportation and logistics 3 out of 6 for OPAC Masters, supervisor has to agree / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

10. OPAC information meeting • Date: December 7, 2011 • Topics: short general intro, short intro new OPAC staff members and potential master projects with them, short presentation some master projects by students • Time: 15:45-17:30 • Location: Pav. K10 • If you would like to attend, please send an email, before December 5, 2011, 9 AM to SimmeDouwe Flapper: S.D.P.Flapper@tue.nl • It would be helpful if you use subject “Information meeting research domains OPAC”. / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

11. OPAC intake process • Advice: talk with SimmeDouwe Flapper • Mentor availability • Interests matching • S.D.P.Flapper@tue.nl • Good alternative: go directly to a mentor • Be prepared! • Provide CV, interests, grades, etc by email • Prepare your face2face meeting with the mentor • Do not wait too long before making appointments / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel